Sentence examples for dim figure from inspiring English sources

She tapped a dim figure and said, "That's Claudia".

Finally, less than forty yards away, a dim figure appeared, speeding across a ragged inside wall.

She squinted at a dim figure beside him, a tall person with broad shoulders in an unflattering cocktail dress.

There had been someone standing on the corner beside a sign saying "Bus Stop" and the bus had not stopped, even though the dim figure waved its arms.

She tapped a dim figure and said, "That's Claudia". Only a knowing eye would have noticed, behind Tina Turner performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show," the backup singer Claudia Lennear go-going in the background.

It was Reed who transformed the speakership for the 20th century, but to most Americans, he is at best a dim figure from history, perhaps a candidate for a particularly tough question on "Jeopardy!" In some ways, Reed's relative anonymity is curious.

The dim figures disappeared into the gloom, he said.

Sometimes they were very near; at other times they became dim figures several floors below.

Through the windshield we see dim figures — Mr. Frank's first wife, Mary, and their two children — bundled together for warmth.

In too many pictures from the region, they are dim figures in the background, unlit to the point of being shadows, their faces blank or distorted.

Before they lay down on the red couch, Kirsten would block the door with a chair, but sometimes dim figures, other couples in search of privacy, opened the door partway.